Guettarda cueroensis Britton

Guettarda cueroensis Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 42: 509. 1915
Guettarda undulata Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 131, in part. 1866. Guettarda xanthocarpa Britton, Bull. Torrey Club 42: 510. 1915.
A shrub or small tree 1.5-5 meters high, the branches terete, reddish-brown or grayish, lenticellate, the branchlets stout, spurlike, strigillose, with very short internodes; stipules ovatedeltoid, acute, 1.5-3 mm. long, strigillose, deciduous; leaves opposite, the stout petioles 1-2 mm. long, strigillose; leaf-blades oblong, narrowly oblong, or elliptic-oblong, 1.5-3 cm. long, 0.6-1.2 cm. wide, acute or obtuse, sometimes mucronate, obtuse to subcordate at the base, coriaceous, glabrous above, sublustrous, the costa plane, the nerves and veins prominulous, closely reticulate, densely but very minutely tomentulose beneath, the costa stout, prominent, glabrate, the lateral nerves slender, prominulous, 8 or 9 on each side, the veins mostly obsolete, the margin plane or undulate; flowers solitary, the peduncles 1-2 mm. long, or the flowers sessile; calyx and hypanthium minutely sericeous, the calyx 1 mm. long, truncate; corolla whitish, the tube minutely retrorse-pilose outside, 7-8 mm. long, the 5-7 lobes rounded, about one third as long as the tube; fruit subglobose, 8-10 mm. in diameter, 6-celled, minutely tomentulose.
Type locality: Hill, vicinity of El Cuero, Oriente, Cuba, altitude 150 meters. Distribution: Cliffs and hillsides, Oriente, Cuba.